Reviews Quotes · Page 4

Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

— David Allen

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

— John Malkovich

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm so used to bad reviews. I really enjoy them when they're very mean!

— Gaspar Noe

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

— Ivan Reitman

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

— Jim Harrison

I've had some bad reviews, but not as bad as the things I could imagine for myself.

— Roger Allam

I don't get involved with what other people say in reviews.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to…

— Nat Hentoff

I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.

— Karen Allen

I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, 'They'll be gone tomorrow; they'll…

— Benji Madden

I've never read a review from anybody that said, "I don't want to watch this anymore because it's just too funny. I…

— Jack Kenny

Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry.

— Lou Barlow

I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.

— John Lasseter

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

— John F. Kennedy

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift),…

— Rick Moody

“If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn…

— Scott Lynch

I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films…

— John Carpenter

We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive…

— Carly Fiorina

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or…

— Anton Chekhov

there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of…

— Gwethalyn Graham

I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet,…

— Alan Palomo

I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping…

— Jodie Foster

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting…

— Carl Safina

Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they…

— Art Buchwald

I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert…

— Mark Helprin

Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's…

— David Mamet

I am never much interested in the effects of what I write…I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two…

— H. L. Mencken

Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep.…

— Dan Millman

There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic…

— Peggy Orenstein

Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes…

— Frank H. T. Rhodes

I'd love to work on something that gets some type of critical respect. This business is sometimes so brutal - you work…

— Jeff Cardoni

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

— Nicole Kidman

“A service commendable is a service worth recommending.”

— Utibe Samuel Mbom

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.

— Heidi Julavits

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

— Sheila Nevins

I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace.

— Terence Winter

“Comparisons are odious Cervantes, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, ect...”

— Talon Rihai

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

— Curtis Hanson

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

— David Cross